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  • As you can see in the photo they're kind of smirking a bit 'cause I snapped their picture with my phonecam. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Service providers haven't completely snapped their wallets shut, but the emphasis for the near-term will be on controlled spending as they look for ways to grow revenues.
  • Once the victim's mind had "snapped" into cult mode, the unsnapping requires a massive assault on the victim's mind to untangle the coded messages injected into it by the sinister forces of the cult leader. Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
  • She just catnapped for 20 minutes to an hour at a time * all day and all night* for a total of 8 or so hours in a 24-hour cycle. Snap | Her Bad Mother
  • Either way, he omitted to mention that he had snapped from the back of the set the post that connects to the cable box.
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  • Bones were snapped, skin was torn, and arrows were poking through chests and backs - black arrows.
  • She was also snapped exposing her toned midriff while taking a telephone call. The Sun
  • Savers with a bundle of cash locked into a bond should have snapped them up. Times, Sunday Times
  • The dog snapped its jaws open and closed inches from Rae's face and he could smell the animal's fetid breath, choking him, causing him to gag.
  • She looked composed as she was snapped on the red carpet with her fellow judges - despite admitting she was nervous. The Sun
  • The pair were snapped getting close at the afterparty, above. The Sun
  • Abbey was snapped in a pair of skin-tight jeans just ten days after her daughter was born. The Sun
  • The type of damage being done to the cars ranges from wing mirrors being snapped off to glue being put in locks and tyres being slashed, with victims facing bills of hundreds of pounds.
  • Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
  • Of course I don't know her," Roger snapped.
  • When I lectured at a skeptics meeting in Dublin in mid-October, this photo of my rapt audience was snapped.
  • You remember the day that baby was kidnapped from the rest area on the interstate?
  • What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
  • Hanuman snapped his finger and began spinning red beads around the wires of the abacus. THE BROKEN GOD
  • The couple were snapped this week after a romantic dinner in London. The Sun
  • There was the Embarcadero with its numbered piers stretching out into the ocean, just like on my Lonely Planet map, and in the middle, the crosshatched pattern of streets snapped to a perfect grid. Nique sa mère
  • Poor old Sofia has been down to her local carpet warehouse and snapped up a few offcuts of a revolting cerise floor covering.
  • The dagger slid smoothly down the front of his tunic, each button snapped off easily until only one separated his bare chest from the cold dagger.
  • In the tea ceremony, the couple punctiliously distributed canned soft drinks toted in plastic shopping bags and snapped photos of each other.
  • The wolf snapped at the hunter's hand.
  • The dry branch snapped in the wind.
  • One young girl from the power -ful Alouite family was out playing in the street when she was kidnapped. A House in Fez
  • Everything was fine until, wham, the wire snapped.
  • Napped with melted butter, and scented with rosemary and mint, that kebob had a tantalizing flavor.
  • He immediately snapped his lighter to light her cigarette.
  • He is kidnapped and his friends try to save him - but are are captured by the Queen's crafty cunning.
  • The tickets for the concert were snapped up within three hours of going on sale.
  • As we reached the top floor the elevator doors slid open and, after announcing ourselves, we were ushered into a sprawling office that included the couch on which Quiller-Couch napped after lunch each day. Battle of the Bulging British Bridesmaids
  • I snapped up the coat at that cheap price.
  • In a moment of blind panic, I crashed through the back door, the door clanging on its frame as it snapped back into place.
  • Pilot Cloth is a coarse, heavy, stout twilled woolen that is heavily napped and navy blue.
  • The cheese, of course, dropped to the ground and was promptly snapped up by the cunning fox. 1066: and the Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry
  • The policeman snapped the handcuffs around her wrist.
  • They stepped so high, the bagpipes sounded a dirge, they snapped their heads around at attention at their commanding officer.
  • He claimed he could not remember anything of what followed before finding blood on himself, and told the jury he must have lost his temper and snapped after years of verbal abuse from Mr Berry.
  • She opened her mouth, snapped in shut, and then shook her head.
  • The door staircase suddenly snapped off the foundation and soared up into the clouds, suddenly being torn apart by flying shrapnel of glass and metal.
  • He threw away the empty magazine, snapped on a third, turned towards the huts and raked them with fire. TANK OF SERPENTS
  • When I mentioned his chinstrap swinging, he grew irritated, abruptly grabbed his strap, and snapped it.
  • He snapped his fingers and he was suddenly clad in a sapphire tux with top hat to match her dress.
  • The flood of dazzling light reaching out from the _Interplanetarian_ snapped off and the little green ameba things were gone. Empire
  • The ball is snapped, and then a strong Oakland rush punctures the line and dumps K.C. QB Trent Green for a loss.
  • Jonas Soling tallied his 37th goal for the Lynx and Erasmo Saltarelli took the loss allowing five goals on 24 shots as Augusta had its seven-game unbeaten streak snapped. East Coast Hockey League - Augusta vs. Charlotte
  • With mute excitement I quickly snapped it up, paid and exited the store - only to suddenly realise that Durgnat wasn't the author I had in mind when I whipped his book off the shelf.
  • He seriously outranked both men, and they snapped to attention.
  • He reached over the dash and snapped off the VHF 's circuit breaker. CORMORANT
  • The motion put such a great strain on New York "s mooring lines that they snapped with loud reports. Titanic - Destination disaster
  • ‘Clean it up,’ Zornitza snapped, reaching for her ampoule and hypodermic syringe.
  • Ivory's head snapped up to look him straight in the eyes, her face now a pale sheet of white from the sudden scare.
  • WE know you love Perks as much as we do because all the fab freebies are being snapped up so quickly. The Sun
  • He snapped the stick in two.
  • Despite its cost, 40 copies have been snapped up in preorder sales from an exclusive print-run of 60. Times, Sunday Times
  • In your angry little snit, you could've snapped at someone in a bad moment and we would've lost money!
  • I snapped that rope as a ringmaster snaps a whip; but though the rope end travelled with great speed and the act must have been unexpected, the creature caught the rope in one of its chelae before it reached its face. Pirates of Venus
  • A spokesman for the parallel government said that the two men had been kidnapped.
  • Englishman Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel in October last year to sail to the United Republic of Tanzania on the way from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates kidnapped.
  • The end of the pencil snapped.
  • The branch suddenly snapped.
  • He quickly snapped the pistol back together again, and then reloaded it, chambering a round.
  • He stood the pace better and eight minutes after the break Will snapped up a loose ball and outpaced the defence with a length of the field gallop.
  • Places in clearing are expected to be limited and snapped up quickly. Times, Sunday Times
  • The general snapped his fingers twice, and the soldiers formed up into a dense phalanx.
  • She snapped the locks open and got her fork that she used to lever the window to move.
  • After the wedding I swallowed my pride and offered her an olive branch - she snapped it in half. The Sun
  • The driver's whip snapped and our carriage ran fast.
  • Clearing its electronic throat, the ship's communi-cator snapped him forcefully back from nebulous realms inhabited by memories of distant dreams and fading visitations. The Chronicles of Riddick
  • Her main preoccupation was to get away from Baltimore, and she snapped up the first remotely eligible husband who came her way. King Edward VIII - The Official Biography
  • The old chain only needed a couple of yanks before it snapped.
  • Beaver cloth is a heavy woolen overcoating, napped and pressed down to resemble beaver fur.
  • The chairman snapped at the committee member's suggestion to break for coffee.
  • Ryan smiled widely into the camera as I snapped the picture.
  • The support worker snapped at me that she didn't have any patience with me after what had happened the night before, and I shouldn't even be there, I was lucky they let me go back.
  • It's no wonder the local Harlem crime lord calls on him when his daughter is kidnapped by the Mafia.
  • `From the depths of TV or video nasties, more like," Mason snapped. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
  • Snaff snapped his fingers and trundled off across his workshop. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
  • Moments later, the officer was again slapping a pair of handcuffs on the 23-year-old man, who had apparently just slipped free from bracelets another officer had snapped around his wrists 16 hours earlier.
  • ``Then up-anchor and get over to the buoys and work out their position from your box of tricks," snapped Ziegler. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • Without looking up, the Commish dutifully scrawled his signature on my paper as Andra snapped a photo of us.
  • This pattern is only used in the passive. It is feared he may have been kidnapped.
  • The more they tried to disrupt its eating time, the more the dog growled and snapped at them. THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
  • I snapped the hard outer crust and observed a softer kernel consisting of unidentifiable mush with what looked like carrots and bean skins protruding from it.
  • We knew if he snapped the same scenario would play out. The Sun
  • When Haitian disobediently attempted to implement policies they had been elected to implement, they were undermined, and if necessary, kidnapped. Isabel Macdonald: Clinton Apologizes for U.S. Role in Destroying Haitian Democracy (Happy April Fool's Day!)
  • The stress began to get to her, and one morning she just snapped.
  • High winds and ice snapped power cables, and sub-zero temperatures and wind gusts hindered the attempts of emergency teams to reconnect them.
  • He was also snapped holding the special red bag which held the much sought-after award. The Sun
  • He snapped the lid on to keep the contents dry.
  • She growled again, and a startled yipe followed when her jaw snapped. Touch of Evil
  • A major section of the crane snapped off at a Dallinger Ltd construction site at the old Gasworks site on the Sunday morning.
  • The string must have snapped, or they may have spit-roasted the dog.
  • Klessa's voice sounded like a donkey's bray next to the voice of the elf, and that as well as the words she said snapped Rilleta out of her dreamy mood.
  • She snapped, taking a deep, shuddering breath.
  • ‘At least I don't have to whore myself out to married men,’ he snapped back.
  • It made me very mad when news channel skipped my brother's story for some rich person's dog who was dognapped.
  • He had napped, he had showered, he had deodorized, he had prayed—or had he? hard to remember—he had refreshed with several Dexedrine and felt ready as a tiger. Dead Zero
  • Then, the super prominence snapped, releasing a quintillion tons of plasma in a conical plum headed toward the Arcturian homeworld at nearly the speed of light. 365 tomorrows » Patricia Stewart : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
  • He refused but she followed him out of the club and they were snapped by waiting paparazzi. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then, snapped out of their awe, the terrorists and commandos begin engaging each other.
  • The tangs don't extend all the way through to the end of the handle, the chef's knives have no defined shank for grasping the blade easily, and a few of the knives have ends that have snapped off from abuse.
  • His ivory leg had been snapped off, leaving but one short sharp splinter. Moby Dick
  • May's patience has snapped much earlier than that of her predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
  • When I heard the news I grabbed the camera and ran to the burbs; got there at rush hour and snapped off a dozen shots.
  • Gunman assaults woman after terror drive POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted.
  • Over 1,700 people were kidnapped by armed opposition groups and paramilitary forces.
  • They had cackled and cheered when Peter had finally killed the little coney with a sharp blow to the spine that had snapped it in two with the sound of a popgun.
  • She was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
  • Patrick had finally snapped out of his saccharine fugue and tried to interject, but Bethlynn ignored him. SACRAMENT
  • Light needled into them and he snapped them shut again. Etched in Bone
  • He snapped the cap on his ballpoint.
  • Patrick scrambled aft and snapped his safety harness around the binnacle support. CORMORANT
  • My mouth opened and snapped shut again, and I pursed my lips, glaring at him through narrow eyes.
  • I seem to have "napped" all afternoon, but never mind!! Sheepdip Diary Entry
  • But Tony Stewart proved Monday that everybody is a title contender when, days after crossing himself off a list of viable threats to win the championship, he snapped a 32-race winless streak with his victory at Chicago. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
  • Mac snapped a small twig from a tree branch and began slowly wandering around the clearing, twisting the stick in his fingers.
  • I snapped this photo the other day while walking by the Original Soup Man chain (franchised from the original Soup Nazi on Seinfeld) … No Soup For Me, Thank You… PLUS the end of the week wrap up | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
  • The high winds just blew away the infrastructure, broadband connections snapped and telephone lines went dead.
  • The man jumped, snapped his head at me and gave me a wild-eyed, slack-jawed expression of shock.
  • The tickets for the concert were snapped up within three hours of going on sale.
  • Mr.. Pawket squeezed out the dishmop with a thoughtful air; she cast a hasty, authoritative glance at the range, banging the door shut with a decision that made Mr. Pawket jump as she snapped: The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Motivator was napped by three of our pundits when a panel of experts were asked for their Derby 1-2 - 3s.
  • ‘I don't think so,’ snapped Kyle, holding up the remote control and pressing the pause button.
  • However, when a woman gives birth her worst nightmare would be to have her child kidnapped from her.
  • The couple were snapped this week after a romantic dinner in London. The Sun
  • They probably lassoed the top and just yanked it down, tied it to a truck, and snapped it at the base, Ouimette said. FBI eyes cross-burning in prosperous U.S. town
  • I snapped, fast losing any sense of restraint or reality.
  • A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard.
  • The production snapped back to normal.
  • The pipe snapped
  • The towrope snapped, and the towed car veered across the road before crashing into the side of the bus.
  • The film is a mix of live action and computer animation, in which Garfield reluctantly adopts the role of hero-in-training when Odie is dognapped by a ruthless TV host.
  • During zazen he napped or turned in his warm, tidepool world.
  • The word pounded in his chest like fierce drumbeats, and I believe he heard me listening that closely, because suddenly, as his mouth spoke on, his eyes snapped around to mine and, like the sound of a gunshot, the pounding ceased, to be replaced by a feeling of uncertainty. Good Fortune
  • It did miss out on buying some bigger retail centres snapped up by rivals but being outbid is usually no disgrace. Times, Sunday Times
  • Like a duenna snapping open her fan – the car snapped open a pair of elegant wings and soared off into Adventure. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang flies again
  • Then he snapped his fingers, and the moujik came padding out of the dimness of the wood; he was heeled and ready as well, his eyes glaring above his furze of beard. Fiancée
  • Wolves snapped and howled at Seye workers, who were running everywhere, and grabbing weapons from the guard towers.
  • Telzey snapped the tiny library shut, fastened it to the belt of her sunsuit and went over to the open window. The Complete Federation Of The Hub
  • Papa's Yorkshire terrier was tied in the truck bed and when one of the elephants walked by, the dog snarled and snapped, straining at the end of her chain.
  • They are kidnapped, and spend a terrifying four years together in grim captivity - polar opposites unexpectedly finding a passionate friendship and comradeship in adversity.
  • Despite its cost, 40 copies have been snapped up in preorder sales from an exclusive print-run of 60. Times, Sunday Times
  • The pistols were entering the country at the rate of 65,000 units per year and were being snapped up by Americans eager to buy a quality, self-loading handgun for well under $200.
  • But she did not hear his plea because the vertebrae in her neck had already snapped.
  • I watched as his eyes fell shut of their own accord, watched as his breathing slowed, and watched as his eyes snapped open again, blinking away their bleariness in confusion.
  • In a confession to police, Davis reportedly said he had not been in Petaluma before the night he allegedly kidnapped Polly.
  • His mouth snapped shut, but not before some of the awful liquid found its way inside.
  • Her foretopmast had snapped in the middle-just as it had done on her first run two years before!
  • He put too much pressure on the door handle and it snapped.
  • A few days later, William was snapped to attention by the sound of a magazine slapping on the coffee table in front of him.
  • He was solidly built with short black hair and curiously red eyes, his physical strength was apparent, as was his short temper when he snapped at his brother.
  • There is good flint for making tools; the abundant debris confirms that handaxes were regularly knapped there.
  • She's been snapped up by Hollywood to star in two major movies.
  • 'Hell, no!' the doctor snapped.
  • The tip of my pole snapped off when it got stuck on a tree, some rod's are collapsable, so it is fairly easy to get a replacement, some are glued together and is impossible to find a replacement. While kayak fishing,I hooked a carp on a Yamamato senko, and after pulling me around the pond,he broke my Ugly Stik and I lost h
  • The ranks snapped to attention before the princes with a silence that gave the effect not of noiselessness but of waiting, of repressing, a great noise to come.
  • “Oh, Yetta, because,” Rahel snapped back, shoving open the door of their apartment and reaching up to turn on the gaslights. Uprising
  • During last few decades hundreds of people from Kohat and other areas of NWFP were kidnapped for ransom many of them were released after payment of ransom by their families, good number of them were killed by the abductors, but in most of the cases people abducted from settled areas were kept in tribal areas of Pakistan, few of the abducted persons have also succeeded to escape from the prison cells of abductors, ‘last year Farooq Mechanic abducted from Kohat had escaped from the prison located in tribal area adjacent to Peshawar, he had got a chance to enter in a truck after unloading bricks from it, abductors were getting forced labor from prisoners to construct a building in tribal area,’ his agedly sister Madam Kishwar had said. Endless Abductions
  • I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. Rodney Dangerfield 
  • With the success of the novel, film rights were snapped up by producer Walter Mirisch.
  • I snapped this photo of three flying saucerlike clouds hovering over the 101 in Tarzana about an hour ago. Boing Boing
  • Computer dealers are finding that even machines that were considered ‘high end’ are being snapped up for use at home with the accent on value for money.
  • Joe nodded hastily and snapped his goggles back over his eyes, covering the two rings of unsoiled flesh they had left when he first lifted them.
  • Abruptly, the creature's wild silvery eyes snapped open, and a guttural screech echoed from its throat, as it spread is massive feathered wings and stood.
  • He snapped two fists around the shaft of his halberd.
  • Rumour is that in his headlong hurry, when mounting behind his yoked horses to begin the battle, he left his father's sword behind and caught up his charioteer Metiscus 'weapon; and that served him long, while Teucrian stragglers turned their backs; when it met the divine Vulcanian armour, the mortal blade like brittle ice snapped in the stroke; the shards lie glittering upon the yellow sand. The Aeneid of Virgil
  • Jane_, as the fore-topmast had soon snapped off sharp at the cap like a carrot, bringing with it, of course, the fore-topgallant mast as well, and the main-topgallant mast, with their respective yards and other spars, and the jib-boom as well. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek
  • Her concerns about Pardo's killings were "cushioned" by his explanations: He said he killed only dope dealers and that he snapped after a child died in his arms of an overdose. Manual Pardo
  • He looked at me for a moment in utter confusion, then snapped his fingers as if he suddenly realised who I was.
  • Pennons snapped in the breeze which was picking up with the beginning of the storm as they approached the tightly shut main gates.
  • Ha, none of that, you woolly-coated rogue, you," he cried, as he jumped aside to escape a kick that the bunch of equine mischief anticly snapped at him. How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories
  • When patients arrive for an operation at the Heartlands Hospital in the Midlands, they will be snapped with a digital camera and tagged with a transmitter.
  • Sandy Stewart "napped" stones on the road in his shirt sleeves, wet or fair, summer and winter, till he was persuaded to retire from active duty at eighty-five, and he spent ten years more in regretting his hastiness and criticising his successor. A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 1
  • Dressed in flowing white, wearing a crown-of-thorns headdress and posing with arms outstretched, crucifixion-style, Lilo was snapped by style photographer Terry Richardson for the new issue of Purple Magazine. Lindsay Lohan Nude Threesome Photoshoot Purple Magazine
  • Her mother had been down at the shops and snapped up half a dozen buns for elevenses.
  • The two executives who were kidnapped last week are yet to be released by their abductors.
  • Her head snapped back and his signet cut her cheek, leaving a thin smear of blood on the back of his hand. TREASON KEEP
  • She unsnapped the closure and twisted open the two halves.
  • I snatched a washrag from the towel rack so hard I snapped myself.
  • [- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
  • We found out that it had healed around infected bone and so it just snapped on impact. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was dognapped for three of those years. Times, Sunday Times
  • She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped.
  • I snapped out of it, and picked up the old fashioned telephone to call my sister.
  • By and large, the prominent (and well funded, I might add) expounders of the current ID movement were at one time (not so long ago) what you might call diehard crackerjack-creationists (e.g., believing that a WASP/WASC God more or less snapped his/her fingers, there was a crackling sound, and out popped the universe and its inhabitants in all their current variety and complexity). The President and Intelligent Design
  • But you were talking about remodelling the garden a few minutes ago,' Liz snapped, lips fixed in narrow angry lines. FALLEN WOMEN
  • Outside, an American flag and the state banner, both still flying at full staff, snapped crisply in a cool, gusty wind.
  • Bargain hunters snapped up everything from winter woollies to suits and evening wear.
  • He did not know why but he knew what he was there for and without thinking he raised his hand and snapped his fingers augustly, but it did not get the man's attention. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • The pair were snapped getting close at the afterparty, above. The Sun
  • One night we put grilled chicken on the counter and he snapped it up. Times, Sunday Times
  • I snapped at anyone who spoke the words: ‘Have you got a minute?’
  • His skin suddenly snapped tight and dry, the perspiration and moisture gone from its surface.
  • Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has been snapped in Beverly Hills dressed as a down and out and rummaging through the trash.
  • Said-Bookisms That Are Usually Safe asked lied admitted snapped declared accused replied (even though it should be obvious) exclaimed roared yelled speculated mused demanded whispered asserted countered cut in hissed (this sticks out a lot, though … use it very sparingly) barked (this also sticks out) Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Don’t Overuse Exotic Substitutes for “Said”
  • The horses neighed, snapped, reared, and fought as best they could, but in the end, they had about as much chance at escape as we did. Kings of Colorado
  • One of his gossamer wings had been snapped off and the other was bent at a sharp angle, the many broken nerves causing it to twitch feebly.

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